June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
9h 49m
English
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The fork Access Method
The fork
access method acts like
ext without the external connection. You can use it only
when the repository and the sandbox are on the same computer.
fork makes CVS run in client/server mode and is
most useful for debugging — to isolate whether a fault is in
CVS’s remote protocols or in the networking —
but it is also used as a substitute for the
local method.
The fork method uses the
CVS_SERVER environment variable, as described in
Section 8.3 earlier in this
chapter.
The repository path format for fork is:
[:fork:]/pathWith the fork access method, both client and
server programs run under the username that the client was called
with and have the filesystem access of that user. Any programs CVS
calls (such as programs called from a scripting file) run with the
same username and access.
Security normally is not an issue with the fork
access method if the method is used on a single-user computer.
However, be aware of the security issues of shared filesystems or
shared mainframes; use the security services of your operating system
to secure a shared repository that is accessed with the
fork method.
Example 8-7 shows how to check out a sandbox using
the fork access method.
Example 8-7. Using the fork access method
jenn@helit:/tmp$ cvs -d :fork:/var/lib/cvs checkout wizzard
cvs server: Updating wizzard
U wizzard/Changelog
U wizzard/INSTALL
U wizzard/MakefileBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
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